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Tuesday, February 06, 2007

Recipe Favorites: Spicy Cherry Tomato Sauce for Pasta

One of the interesting things about writing a food blog is the need to keep creating new recipes all the time. I'm guessing regular cooks are much more likely to have favorite recipes they make over and over. I never post recipes unless I like how they turn out and think others will enjoy them, but still some recipes certainly fall into the category of *favorites* much more than others. I've decided once in a while I'm going to start re-posting my recipe favorites for readers who missed them the first time around.

This spicy cherry tomato sauce is something I absolutely love. I make it in the summer when I have cherry tomatoes and fresh basil in my garden. However, it's really quite fantastic with store-bought cherry tomatoes in the dead of winter. You do know the trick about smelling the tomatoes don't you? If they don't have at least some tomato smell, forget buying them. But if your store has some tomatoes with a bit of that tomato smell, buy some fresh basil and parsley and make this fantastic sauce.

Spicy Cherry Tomato Sauce for Pasta

(enough sauce for 4 servings of pasta, recipe created by Kalyn with inspiration from Epicurious.com.)

Squeeze sausage out of casing and cook in small amount of olive oil until slightly browned. (Mash with potato masher to get it in small pieces.) Remove sausage from pan. Add olive oil, red pepper flakes, garlic, oregano, and cherry tomatoes. Cook 3-4 minutes, until tomatoes are starting to soften. Add sausage, basil and parsley and cook 3-4 minutes more. Serve over hot linguini or spaghetti with lots of fresh Parmesan.

South Beach Suggestions:
You could enjoy this for phase two or three of the South Beach Diet if you use Dreamfield's pasta or your favorite whole wheat pasta, and turkey Italian Sausage. (I greatly prefer Dreamfields low carb pasta to whole wheat.) For phase two, have a small serving of pasta with something like Mary's Perfect Salad or Cucumber and Feta Salad. If you're on phase three, you can have a larger serving of pasta.

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I love my pasta with italian sausage after trying it recently at Pasta Pomodoro. Now I found a similar recipe that uses this ingredient, and what's good, it's homemade. I better get my italian sausage soon! :D

You really are right about having a food blog inspiring\requiring new recipes. Thats one of the things I love most about it. Though my boyfriend sometimes complains that I don't make the things he really likes enough!

You have now reminded me of a cherry tomato sauce I was making twice a week about 5 years ago, I need to go find it.This looks wonderful!!This is the first winter we didn't enclose our back porch and have fresh basil all year, I really miss it.

My friend has bags and bags of her mother's cherry T's that she just didn't know what to with. So we just made this for a very lazy afternoon lunch (sans sausage since she's a Veg). It was perfect. Thanks!

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